In a perfect world, what and how would you change the educational system in our country?

If there was ever to be a perfect world with the perfect education, our education would be somewhat like this. Equality for everyone to start off, money wouldn’t be an issue since everyone would be equal. There would only be one set of standards that everyone in the country would have to follow. There would be an equal ratio of students to teachers per class. And last but not least all classes would have to be challenging to the students and encourage them to pursue their studies. This is just a quick way to put it.

Yes money is what runs schools now days. Schools across the nation complain over and over how they need money to have a better education system. Yet it has been proven many times how schools really don’t need as much money as they say. Like in the video we watched today Stupid in America, it talked about a school which runs on very little money yet has outstanding brilliant students promoting from it every year. Every student in that school achieves excellence in education. And yes this is without having to spend the thousands of dollars that are spent annually on an average American student per year. What we need are teachers who can be more passionate about their jobs, teachers who are willing to take those extra steps in educating their students. There are millions of dollars spent annually on teachers who don’t even work as teachers anymore. This is due to the Teacher Unions which are formed and are very powerful. They basically run the terms and conditions’ which makes it difficult to fire a teacher. They would have to go through hundreds of steps before being fired. That is why when a teacher is found guilty of doing something offensive; they are taken out of the school but are still getting a paycheck and benefits without having to work. This angers me because this money can be used for more important stuff like purchasing textbooks and programs that can help kids in school.

Another issue concerning this country’s education is the actual material being taught at school. Yes we have 50 states in our country and because each state decides on their school standards there are 50 different set of standards in this country. In order to have a more perfect education system we need to be more equal. And in order to be more equal we should only have one set of standards for our whole country. I believe this will because then the standards won’t be set too low nor too high. By giving us more challenging and rigorous courses I believe we can also become more educated, but this should apply to all students. I do think students need to learn about all subjects, this will just help them by making them well rounded students. Yes this might sound communistic but if it was to be a perfect world this is how I believe our country’s education should be run.
-Ignacio Montor